[GRASS-dev] scripts don't launch GUI from the msys command line in winGRASS

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat Feb 6 14:57:24 EST 2010


On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> > Note that if GRASS_GUI is tcltk, it won't work, due to G_popen() not
>> > working at all on Windows (execl() works like on Unix, i.e. it doesn't
>> > return if it succeeds; but unlike Unix, Windows doesn't have fork()).
>> >
>> > Using the new G_popen() from 7.0 is one option.
>>
>> ... another backport project?
>
> Resolved in r40834 (6.5) by replacing all uses of G_popen() (there are
> only three, all in lib/gis) with popen().

Fine - backported as r40849 to 6.4.

Markus


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